Memória do chão
Memory of the Ground
by Marcelo Labes
Companhia das Letras 2025
320 pages
14×21 cm
The formative years of a boy at a boarding school in southern Brazil. A moving story about the trials of adolescence, the experiences and encounters that shape us, and the reckoning we must, sooner or later, make with the past.
Rafael comes from a modest family, and sees in the chance of becoming a Lutheran pastor a way out of all his problems. Admitted on a scholarship to the Evangelical School, he soon discovers that his plans have collapsed: the pre-theological course has been discontinued. And yet, this detour proves to be the beginning of the great transformative experience of his life. The novel follows Rafael through his days and nights at school (and his escapes beyond its walls), capturing all that means to an adolescent in the making: friendships, passions, drunken nights and discoveries.
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Marcelo Labes was born in 1984 in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. He is the author of Paraízo-Paraguay (2019), winner of the São Paulo Literary Prize; Três porcos (2020), winner of the Machado de Assis Prize; O nome de meu pai (2021), Amor de bicho (2021), and Deus não dirige o destino dos povos (2023) — all published by Caiaponte Edições. His poetry collection Enclave (Patuá, 2018) was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize.
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